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Spokane, WA MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

43,397 32,207 776 57,187 17,351 267,021
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -1 -497 -25.6%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant 0 +274 6.7%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -25 -31.3%
Baptist General Conference Evangelical Protestant -2 -326 -66.4%
Catholic Church Catholic +1 +16,092 39.2%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +104 11.7%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant -2 -325 -20.0%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant -1 +142 14.2%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 -29 -13.4%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -29 -9.0%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 -44 -46.8%
Church of God of Prophecy Evangelical Protestant 0 +4 11.8%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology +9 +2,249 18.8%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +403 15.6%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +117 15.3%
Conservative Baptist Association of America Evangelical Protestant -2 n.a. n.a.
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,057 -22.6%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +193 160.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant -1 -45 -0.4%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +372 66.8%
Friends (Quakers) Mainline Protestant +1 +135 133.7%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant -3 -2,800 -82.4%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant +3 +4,435 300.7%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel Evangelical Protestant +2 +3,167 379.3%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Evangelical Protestant +1 -29 -36.3%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology 0 +700 87.5%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +395 9.9%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 +27 n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -406 -44.9%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 +2 2.7%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant -1 -73 -47.7%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant +1 -322 -3.9%
Presbyterian Church in America Evangelical Protestant 0 +123 n.a.
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +661 249.4%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +222 6.6%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 +2,863 49.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology 0 -4 -0.8%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -601 -45.3%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant 0 -477 -7.8%
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -1 -1.0%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant -1 +43 18.4%
  Totals: +4 +25,633 +21.2%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 361,364; in 2000 it was 417,939. The total population changed 15.7%. The adherent totals for 1990 (123,194) represent 34.1% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (150,918) include 36.1% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 40 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 40 groups had 121,067 adherents in 1990 and 146,700 adherents in 2000, for a change of 21.2%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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